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Biometrics have been considered also instrumental to the development of state authority (to put it in Foucauldian terms, of discipline and biopower ). By turning the human subject into a collection of biometric parameters, biometrics would dehumanize the person, infringe bodily integrity, and, ultimately, offend human dignity. In a well-known case, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben refused to enter the United States in